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...blackness (sort of - I'll get to that shortly). The 1925 "Body and Soul," which I discussed in my last That Old Feeling column, has a robust narrative that nearly matches the charismatic presence of Paul Robeson as a preacher who charms, abuses and steals from his congregation of womenfolk. "The Symbol of the Unconquered" (1921) is a rambling, mostly charming love story about a black man who loves a light-skinned black woman but is afraid to propose to her for fear of rejection, as she was afraid to cozy up to him for fear she was too light...
...base comedian, Khwaja, short, tousle-haired with a square face, mustache and three days of stubble, gets one of the Pakistani "terrorists" from across the line on the walkie-talkie. Opening greetings rapidly degenerate into an exchange of obscenities featuring enemy womenfolk and various farmyard animals. Allah Mahmad and the boys gathered around him listening are doubled over in laughter...
...romance readers want to confront in their spare time. The rift between those who dote on and those who disdain romance novels really centers on the question of fantasy and its proper place in adult imagination. Here again sexism may play a part. Patriarchs have traditionally fretted about their womenfolk's being ruined by a book. Flaubert's Madame Bovary graphically portrayed the ruin that ensues when a young female's head is filled with romantic fancies. Can it really be good, modern critics wonder, for women to be whiling away so many hours reading impossibly glamorized love stories? Which...
...Family Thing"--Aunt T., Mrs. Pilcher, Ray's and Earl's mother--are too saintly to be true, while the men are either churls (like Pilcher, Sr.) or burdened by a huge chip on the shoulder. Like balky horses, they must be forced into decent, sensible behavior by their womenfolk. "A Family Thing" would probably have been more convincing had nobility and selfishness been more evenly divided between the two sexes...
...trying to force schools to teach the crank "science" of creationism. And what should we expect of an age in which John Mack, a Harvard professor of psychiatry, publishes a book on the abduction of humans by aliens--he is particularly fascinated with the way aliens inseminate our womenfolk--and...What? Is fired? Denied tenure? Hardly. Finds himself with a best seller, a spot on Oprah and a fistful of Rockefeller-family research money...